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I don't know if people are aware of this but you can go and collect packs of lateral flow self test kits from your local testing centre at the moment. It supposed to be for parents of school kids but they don't check or ask you to sing anything or prove who you are. They had loads at the test centre in Central Reading and I could have taken as many as I wanted. Got 2x 7 packs.

www.gov.uk

[Withdrawn] Households and bubbles of pupils, students and staff of schools, nurseries and colleges: get rapid lateral flow tests

Find out who is eligible for twice-weekly testing and how to get tested if you do not have symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19). This guidance is for people without symptoms.
www.gov.uk www.gov.uk

I had a brief chat with the guy at the centre too. He told me that they are barely getting anyone in asking for tests at the moment which is a good sign.
 
Everything continues to go well, fingers crossed for the next couple weeks, with the schools going back on Monday.

Vaccinations - 1st dose just over 20.982m & 2nd dose over 963.8k.

New cases - 6,573, down -34.4% in the last week, and down a massive 3,412 on last Thursday's 9,985, bringing the 7-day average down to around 6,686 - a figure we've not seen since last Sept.! :cool:

New deaths - 242, down -33.6% in the last week, and down 81 on last Thursday's 323, bringing the 7-day average down to around 255 - a figure we've not seen since last October! :thumbs:
 
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Good to see Worthing is now showing a drop of -23.5% in the last 7-days, having become a hotspot a couple of weeks ago, peaking at a +63% increase.

Bearing in mind the borough's population is only 110k, and cases are measured per 100k, so only a few dozen cases can result in a large percentage increase.

We had a blip like this last Aug. or Sept., thanks to three young lads coming back from holiday & not self isolating, but instead going out on the town & to a house party, each picked-up a £1,000 fine. :thumbs:

Turns out it was a similiar situation this time, with most of those extra cases over that 2 weeks being traced back to a fucking house party. :facepalm: :mad:
 
cupid_stunt said:
Good to see Worthing is now showing a drop of -23.5% in the last 7-days, having become a hotspot a couple of weeks ago, peaking at a +63% increase.

Bearing in mind the borough's population is only 110k, and cases are measured per 100k, so only a few dozen cases can result in a large percentage increase.

We had a blip like this last Aug. or Sept., thanks to three young lads coming back from holiday & not self isolating, but instead going out on the town & to a house party, each picked-up a £1,000 fine. :thumbs:

Turns out it was a similiar situation this time, with most of those extra cases over that 2 weeks being traced back to a fucking house party. :facepalm: :mad:
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Isn't that 100,000 people over 80? Bodies on the street if it runs rampant there.
 
Sunray said:
Isn't that 100,000 people over 80? Bodies on the street if it runs rampant there.
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Fuck off. :mad:

Worthing has a far younger population nowadays, because of a influx of younger people, compared to 20-25 years ago, we're nowhere near on a par with the likes of Eastbourne & Bexhill. :p

That's not saying we're not surrounded by retirement villages in both Adur & Arun district council areas, but they are not in Worthing borough.
 
souljacker said:
I don't know if people are aware of this but you can go and collect packs of lateral flow self test kits from your local testing centre at the moment. It supposed to be for parents of school kids but they don't check or ask you to sing anything or prove who you are. They had loads at the test centre in Central Reading and I could have taken as many as I wanted. Got 2x 7 packs.

www.gov.uk

[Withdrawn] Households and bubbles of pupils, students and staff of schools, nurseries and colleges: get rapid lateral flow tests

Find out who is eligible for twice-weekly testing and how to get tested if you do not have symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19). This guidance is for people without symptoms.
www.gov.uk www.gov.uk

I had a brief chat with the guy at the centre too. He told me that they are barely getting anyone in asking for tests at the moment which is a good sign.
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We have a place like that just across the way. They are specifically saying NHS and care workers plus parents of school children. Doesn't seem very busy, but then again the main drive through test area we have didn't seem very busy until December.
 
I'm sure the 1% pay rise proposal from the department of health for nurses will be discussed in other threads, but I felt like putting it here too given how much pandemic burden fell on their shoulders and what an extra slap in the face this seems like as a result.

I'm not anticipating booing on the doorsteps as a protest version of the clap in response to this, but I would recommend it.

www.bbc.co.uk

Nurses' union anger over 'pitiful' 1% NHS pay rise

The government will face a public backlash if it does not pay staff more, the RCN union warns.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
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SpineyNorman said:
Bollocks. What you've said only makes sense if lockdown was a pro-active action aimed at saving lives.

That's a position that can only be sustained if you've not really been paying attention.

In the UK it has been a last minute act of desperation to avoid the health service getting overwhelmed. If that happens the impact on the economy (both short and especially long term, as a large proportion of the younger people who would have just needed oxygen die, people die of relatively trivial non covid causes etc) s worse than that of a lockdown by several orders of magnitude.

Basically you're talking shit.

He is your hero too isn't he?
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It's not bollocks at all and no, I'm not talking shit. Just because you can't seem to even vaguely consider the possibility doesn't mean it might not happen. Unlike you I'm perfectly willing to accept that lockdowns may well have saved more lives than they will ultimately cost. I'm also perfectly willing to consider the opposite. The fact that lockdowns can't be sustained, as you just said there, is exactly my point, and the longer they go on the more long term damage they will do. But never mind. You're a "boring clown" too, I guess, or whatever you called me in your other post. And please, why not keep ignoring other posts where I said I AGREED with lockdowns being necessary to stop the health service being overwhelmed? Makes you look so intelligent.

And no, he's not my hero, for the third time.
 
The over 80's appear to be poorly educated on how vaccines work. Like in Israel, a lot of them are getting the vaccine and then doing whatever they like.

Can I remind all 80 yo, that the average age of death for COVID-19 is 81 and you need to wait at least a month before you venture outside?
 
MJ100 said:
It's not bollocks at all and no, I'm not talking shit. Just because you can't seem to even vaguely consider the possibility doesn't mean it might not happen. Unlike you I'm perfectly willing to accept that lockdowns may well have saved more lives than they will ultimately cost. I'm also perfectly willing to consider the opposite. The fact that lockdowns can't be sustained, as you just said there, is exactly my point, and the longer they go on the more long term damage they will do. But never mind. You're a "boring clown" too, I guess, or whatever you called me in your other post. And please, why not keep ignoring other posts where I said I AGREED with lockdowns being necessary to stop the health service being overwhelmed? Makes you look so intelligent.

And no, he's not my hero, for the third time.
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You're an idiot. It's pointless even attempting to get through to you.

Go back to your rishi sunak shrine and never darken these boards again.
 
MJ100 said:
It's not bollocks at all and no, I'm not talking shit. Just because you can't seem to even vaguely consider the possibility doesn't mean it might not happen. Unlike you I'm perfectly willing to accept that lockdowns may well have saved more lives than they will ultimately cost. I'm also perfectly willing to consider the opposite. The fact that lockdowns can't be sustained, as you just said there, is exactly my point, and the longer they go on the more long term damage they will do. But never mind. You're a "boring clown" too, I guess, or whatever you called me in your other post. And please, why not keep ignoring other posts where I said I AGREED with lockdowns being necessary to stop the health service being overwhelmed? Makes you look so intelligent.

And no, he's not my hero, for the third time.
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What’s your point though? (Other than responding to spiney). We’ve had to have these rolling lockdowns because of a particular approach that wanted the economy to be determined by market forces as much as possible. They aren’t a product of a pro-lockdown approach, they’re a consequence of an economic philosophy that avoids government intervention until it’s too late.
 
skyscraper101 said:
What's happened about this Brazil variant then and the hunt for the missing positive case? Last I heard they'd narrowed it down to 379 people. Seems to have gone mysteriously quiet :hmm:
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I assume they found out which boy from Brazil it was and are giving him a cabinet seat
 
skyscraper101 said:
What's happened about this Brazil variant then and the hunt for the missing positive case? Last I heard they'd narrowed it down to 379 people. Seems to have gone mysteriously quiet :hmm:
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Yeah, I asked the same the last few days. Not heard anything.
 
elbows said:
Who the fuck are these shitheads?

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I had an encounter on Twitter last night with a Kiwi who said he was more concerned about kids wearing masks than the potentially disastrous tsunami NZ had been warned about. Tried to put him straight but he was saying stuff about kids need twice as much oxygen and that C19 only killed a certain %, so I insulted him and blocked him
 
souljacker said:
I don't know if people are aware of this but you can go and collect packs of lateral flow self test kits from your local testing centre at the moment. It supposed to be for parents of school kids but they don't check or ask you to sing anything or prove who you are. They had loads at the test centre in Central Reading and I could have taken as many as I wanted. Got 2x 7 packs.

www.gov.uk

[Withdrawn] Households and bubbles of pupils, students and staff of schools, nurseries and colleges: get rapid lateral flow tests

Find out who is eligible for twice-weekly testing and how to get tested if you do not have symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19). This guidance is for people without symptoms.
www.gov.uk www.gov.uk

I had a brief chat with the guy at the centre too. He told me that they are barely getting anyone in asking for tests at the moment which is a good sign.
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Thank you.didn’t know about this. Going to get some
 
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